Development of Principles of Training
3. Since 1895 therefore the basic problem of prison administration
had been to devise methods of treating prisoners which on the one
hand will 'effectually turn them out of prison better men and
women than when they came in', and in the other can be reconciled
with the facts that the prisoner has been sent to prison as a punishment
for an offence, and that one purpose of punishment is to deter both
that offender and all potential offenders from committing further
offences of that sort. The reconciliation in one system of principles
so
apparently opposed as deterrence and reform, punishment and re-
habilitation, was not and could not be simple.